Ideal for anyone interested in software design patterns, this visually rich resource lays out the basics in a simple, clear, and concise manner, explaining everything from how patterns are used in Java API to how design principles work.
You’re not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don’t want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat tire), so you look to Design Patterns–the lessons learned by those who’ve faced the same problems.

With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others, so that you can spend your time on…something else. Something more challenging. Something more complex. Something more fun. You want to learn about the patterns that matter–why to use them, when to use them, how to use them (and when NOT to use them). But you don’t just want to see how patterns look in a book, you want to know how they look “in the wild.” Read the rest of this entry »

Are you a programmer looking for a new challenge? Does the thought of building your very own iPhone app make your heart race and your pulse quicken? If so, then Beginning iPhone Development is just the book for you.
Assuming only a minimal working knowledge of Objective-C, and written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style, Beginning iPhone Development offers a complete soup-to-nuts course in iPhone and iPod Touch programming.

The book starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and installing Apple’s free iPhone SDK, then stepping you though the creation of your first simple iPhone application. You’ll move on from there, mastering all the iPhone interface elements that you’ve come to know and love, such as buttons, switches, pickers, toolbars, sliders, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

This unique learning tool teaches anatomical concepts and illustrates all the structures and systems of the body through coloring exercises, an effective teaching device that also aids in the retention of the material. 163 detailed illustrations are organized according to body systems; an ingenious color-key system links terminology to illustrations, reinforcing learning and impressing upon students the visual details of anatomy. This edition features new coverage of the lymphoid-immune system, and 29 new plates.

For over 23 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the leading human anatomy coloring book, offering concisely written text and precise, extraordinary hand-drawn figures. Read the rest of this entry »

This groundbreaking work is the first internationally published book to examine the link between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia.
These health problems are linked to a tiny protein fragment that is formed when we digest A1 beta-casein, a milk protein produced by many cows in the United States and northern European countries.

Milk that contains A1 beta-casein is commonly known as A1 milk; milk that does not is called A2. All milk was once A2, until a genetic mutation occurred some thousands of years ago in some European cattle. A2 milk remains high in herds in much of Asia, Africa, and parts of Southern Europe. A1 milk is common in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

Natural health’s number-one bestseller for more than twenty years, completely revised and updated. With more than five million copies sold, “Prescription for Nutritional Healing” is the most trusted, comprehensive source on dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, and herbs. A pioneer in the field of nutritional healing, Phyllis Balch passionately and meticulously researched and compiled this groundbreaking book.

Now, a generation later, her message has more relevance than ever: consume fresh foods, avoid processed foods and those high in saturated fat, and optimize your intake of essential nutrients with the right supplements. Today’s well-stocked vitamin and natural-health stores can be confusing, and people need Balch’s clear, concise, landmark guide. Read the rest of this entry »

Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia, 2008 Deluxe Lab-Coat Pocket Edition continues high-quality tradition of a convenient and organized pocket manual detailing typical drug dosing (both FDA approved and off-label uses), available trade and generic formulations, metabolism, Canadian drug names, relative pricing, information, and safety in pregnancy and lactation.

The Deluxe takes it all a step further by including additional drugs and dosing indications, black-box warnings, notes of cytochrome P450 isozymes, Packed with this expanded information and more tables than the Classic, the Deluxe is still small enough to comfortably fit in our labcoat pocket. Read the rest of this entry »

Cunning, instructive, and amoral, this controversial bestseller distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. Law 1: Never Outshine the Master. Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions. Law 7: Get Others to Do the Work for You, but Always Take the Credit. Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally. Law 33: Discover Each Man’s Thumbscrew.
These are the laws of power in their unvarnished essence—the philosophies of Machiavelli (The Prince), Sun-tzu (The Art of War), Carl von Clausewitz, Talleyrand, the great seducer Casanova, con man Yellow Kid Weil, and other legendary thinkers and schemers.

They teach prudence, stealth, mastery of one’s emotions, the art of deception, and the total absence of mercy. Like it or not, all have practical applications in real life. Read the rest of this entry »

You might think that John Grisham’s 22nd book, The Associate, has little chance of being any good. According to its jacket copy, it’s practically a rewrite of his 1991 blockbuster, The Firm. Time magazine cheerfully dismissed it as “John Grisham’s Charming Novel About Nothing.” And the book’s hand-wringing about the outrageous excesses of fancy Wall Street law firms seems, in this winter of our hardship, so suddenly last summer.
You might think all these things, but you would be wrong.

Those echoes of The Firm? Evidence that a winning formula still works. A charming novel about nothing? In fact it’s about quite a lot of things, including alcoholism, rape, and the big New York law firm as evil empire, a soul-killing “full-service sweatshop” for its younger members and the venue for a reckless proliferation of billable $800 hours for its partners. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Analytics: An Hour A Day is the first book by an in the trenches practitioner of web analytics. It provides a unique insiders perspective of the challenges and opportunities that Web Analytics presents to each person in your organization that touches the web.
Avinash Kaushik is a expert in Web Analytics and the author of the top rated blog Occam’s Razor.

In this best selling book he goes beyond Web Analytics concepts and definitions to provide a step-by-step guide to implementing a successful web analytics strategy. Read the rest of this entry »

Take your coding skills to the next level with this extensive guide to Objective–C, the native programming language for developing sophisticated software applications for Mac OS X. Objective–C is a powerful, object–oriented extension of C, making this book the perfect follow–up to Dave Mark’s best–selling Learn C on the Mac, Mac OS X Edition. Whether you’re an experienced C programmer or you’re coming from a different language such as C++ or Java, leading Mac experts Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster show you how to harness the powers of Objective–C in your applications!

* A complete course on the basics of Objective–C using Apple’s free Xcode tools.
* An introduction to object–oriented programming.
* Comprehensive coverage of inheritance, composition, object initialization, categories, protocols, memory management, and organizing source files.
* A brief tour of Cocoa’s Foundation framework and AppKit.
* A helpful “learning curve” guide for non–C developers, Read the rest of this entry »